Astronomy Picture of the Day

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

After much frustration I've now decided to abandon this blog and move over to tumblr. For a while now I've been unable to switch and change some of my settings here on blogger after a lot of upgrades and changes were made and as a result this blog hasn't been indexed at all for a while now which largely defeats the purpose of having this blog as I rely a lot on the SEO for both my blog and website. Don't know if anyone else has had an error pop up after trying to change settings - I've even tried contacting google about it with no replies so tumblr is where I will be posting from now on. I plan on possibly upgrading my website soon too as I do like the design but it hasn't been getting indexed very well either.

Here is a link to my account on tumblr: http://cellesria.tumblr.com/ Would love to see you guys there and I just posted two new work-in-progress there as well!

Feel badly that I haven't posted much for a while but that will change as I now have a lot more time.

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Hey everyone, This portrait is inspired by a YouTuber that I have been subscribed to for a few years now. She is a beauty guru who films makeup tutorials along with product and fashion hauls. Since I have an obsession with makeup and enjoy watching makeup videos on YouTube, naturally I enjoy watching her makeup tutorials most of all though unfortunately she hasn't made many for a while.

Here is a link to Elle's YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/AllThatGlitters21

Recently I discovered that she had badly injured her back and I was sad to hear the news. I can only imagine how horrible it must be to be confined to your home for so long to heal from something like that. I hope that she makes a full recovery from this and that she is finding some happiness in her current situation. I thought I'd create this portrait for her and record my painting process as well for those interested because not only does she have a beautiful face to paint but I thought perhaps if she saw this that it would cheer her up and perhaps she'd like it.

I always enjoy when she features Pinecone in her videos! He was fun to paint because he's so adorable and I haven't painted many animals before, but I do plan to in the future.

I looked at a few images and video stills of her for reference to study her bone structure, but this image was not copied from any other content.

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Here is a quick
inspired painting I created (for a time-lapse painting video) of Effie
Trinket with a custom Mockingjay look I created for her. While I always
enjoyed her crazy and fabulous Capitol looks, for this painting
I wanted to create a darker look to show her likely support for the
uprising. The blood splatter across her face symbolizes both the
uprising as well as the part she played as a propaganda tool for the
Capitol in the annual Hunger Games. Since I do love her colorful looks
too, however, I may consider doing another, and much lighter painting of
her in the future as well. We probably won't see her looking anything
like this in the film but I thought it would be interesting to create a
look like this for her. Really enjoyed Mockinjay but wow
it's going to be hard to wait for part 2 now. Definitely as great as the
other two films but much darker.

I apologize for all of the zooming in and out throughout the video, I
zoom in and out a lot during my workflow and editing all of this out
would be a nightmare for me.

Monday, July 28, 2014

Finally got around to finishing this one.
Started it I think over a year ago and have been working on quite a few
different paintings at the same time including this one. Have some extra
free time this week and hope to finish some of the others as well. Hope
you all like it and thanks for your visit!

Friday, May 16, 2014

It's been a while since my last post due to the fact that I've been busy with a new job and life but also because I've been actually working on several paintings at the same time - some of which will be for a solo exhibition that I will have at the Kelied gallery in September which will have a celestial/sci fi theme (will post an update about this again in the future). This work in progress is a preview of one of them that I'm currently working on - she is a type of humanoid alien creature. I love painting humanoid alien type characters as I think they are beautiful and interesting to paint. There are so many possible directions to go in with the design and I find that a lot of fun.

I would also like to mention that I'm planning to perhaps move this blog to my website in the future and will try and post updates more often.